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My interview with Katherine Waugh & Fergus Daly is now online over at @SensesofCinema
We talked about their film I See a Darkness, how animal life and perception is interpreted by modernity and capitalism through art, and more. Proud of this piece.
sensesofcinema.com/2024/film…
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⭐️ NEW DIGITAL ZINE ⭐️
In honor of the Larry Gottheim series opening tomorrow at @MoMAFilm, we’re pleased to publish a new digital zine, "Intervals of Light & Darkness: A Collection of New & Selected Texts on the Cinema of Larry Gottheim", free to read at ultradogme.com
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10 days left to stream Sandra Davis’ masterpiece MATERNAL FILIGREE (1980) 💛
Streaming through May 23 for members of our Movie Club at patreon.com/ultradogme, a monthly streaming series run through our Patreon, where we show an exclusively curated program of experimental films
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Several Palestinian youtube channels have now stopped posting because they were killed. These were kids. Teenagers. They sang songs & loved birds & showed us the ocean. The silence is unbearable.
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NOW STREAMING: MATERNAL FILIGREE BY SANDRA DAVIS
Sandra Davis' 1980 masterpiece is a sensual and translucent paean to feminine intimacy and ardor 💞
Available through May 23 for Movie Club members. Sign up to watch at patreon.com/ultradogme
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New Patreon-exclusive essay by @langsmonkey:
Two Breaths: Roots and stalks of thoughts on being in nature, being human, making art and two films by Rose Lowder and Sharon Couzin.
Read it here: tinyurl.com/5h4d9jnu
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Streaming in our Movie Club from May 9-23! Sign up to watch at patreon.com/ultradogme
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COMING SOON: MATERNAL FILIGREE BY SANDRA DAVIS
Sandra Davis' 1980 masterpiece is a sensual and translucent paean to feminine intimacy and ardor.
Streaming from May 9-23 for Movie Club members. Sign up to watch at patreon.com/ultradogme
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Honored to have organized a career-spanning retrospective of @larrygottheim's films @MoMAFilm, opening May 15-27.
Please join us for our opening night screening on May 15 at 7pm, where I’ll be introducing Larry. Full schedule here: moma.org/calendar/film/5812
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Dan Ziegler @zandiegler on this year's Light Field, its rich selection, incl. the rediscovered Palestine Will Win, & its radically intertwining currents of experimentation, community & solidarity. The piece incl. a video by Ziegler inspired by the festival
ultradogme.com/2025/04/30/li…
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Just one day left to stream our April Movie Club program, Two Films by Saif Alsaegh. Don't miss out!
NOW STREAMING: 2 FILMS BY SAIF ALSAEGH
Bitter with a Shy Taste of Sweetness (2019)
The Motherfucker's Birthday (2024)
Alsaegh melds music, found footage & barbed, intimate memories between Iraq and the US
Available for Movie Club members thru Apr 25 at patreon.com/ultradogme
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Alonso Aguilar @alonsoaguilarc on the striking abrasions and velocities of Amir Naderi's international modernist cinema, which screened at the @ICALondon in February.
ultradogme.com/2025/04/23/am…
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Antoni Orlof speaks with Karl Kels about how approaching filmmaking with an openness to chance and precision, and finding new paths while defining limits, has shaped his unique body of work.
ultradogme.com/2025/04/18/st…
For @BOMBmagazine I interviewed @donalforeman about his latest feature The Cry of Granuaile, its roots in history & science fiction, the influence of the 'First Wave' of independent Irish filmmakers, his work as an educator & more.
bombmagazine.org/articles/20…
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NOW STREAMING: 2 FILMS BY SAIF ALSAEGH
Bitter with a Shy Taste of Sweetness (2019)
The Motherfucker's Birthday (2024)
Alsaegh melds music, found footage & barbed, intimate memories between Iraq and the US
Available for Movie Club members thru Apr 25 at patreon.com/ultradogme
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COMING SOON: TWO FILMS BY SAIF ALSAEGH
Program:
-Bitter with a Shy Taste of Sweetness (2019)
-The Motherfucker's Birthday (2024)
Alsaegh melds music, found footage & barbed, intimate memories to traverse the distance between his past in Iraq and present in the US.
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NEW ESSAY: Cici Peng @CiciPeng_ on the revolutionary dynamics of several films featured at the ‘third worldist’ Afro-Asian Film Festival, and screened at @iffr for the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference.
ultradogme.com/2025/04/02/re…
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Many years in the making! Happy to finally announce that I've curated a retrospective of @larrygottheim's films playing at MoMA this May 15-27. Link below:
moma.org/calendar/film/5812
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New Essay: Emily Jisoo Bowles on 3 films that screened at this year's IFFR, which use found footage to interrogate historical, political and representational fissures.
ultradogme.com/2025/03/19/re…
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Stephen Jeffrey Cappel speaks with Jason Byrne about the years-long voyage to make Scrap Vessel (2009), a rigorous and imaginative swan song to a coal freighter on its final journey, streaming now on our Movie Club on Patreon until March 28.
ultradogme.com/2025/03/14/sc…
